Well, howdy there internet people is Bo again. So today we're going to talk about a bygone era, the

wholesome 1950s. It's an image that people have.

George Santa Ana died goodbye in 1952.

It's kind of fitting that he died then. He's the guy, those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

And it makes sense.

You know, that saying it's been

said in a bunch of different ways over the years but when you're talking about the 1950s

man it makes sense because we have that image we have that image of this wholesome

leave it to beaver type life and people want to reach back to it in fact there

are certain political slogans today that

reference it and that's the idea when you ask people what they mean. You know

when you see that red hat and you say when was it you want to make America great when are you talking about most

times they say the 1950s because they have this idea this image that comes

from movies. But what if there's a reason that image

exists and it wasn't reality? We need to remember that the same era that gave us the wholesome Doris Day, gave us

Marilyn Monroe and Bridget Bardell, who today are kind of seen as the first icons of, well let's just say the less than wholesome.

You look to Broadway and you have South Pacific in 1949 addressing interracial relationships.

You have the King and I.

And when you look at it today, you're like, man, that's kind kind of racist because it is but some of the

themes that were being addressed when you look at them in context of the times and

substitute Siam for other locations in Southeast Asia, where the former colonial

powers might have been trying to get a foothold,

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